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Adding effects to the video - 13/02/2013

Today Jamie and I added effects to our elevator shots so that the audience are able to make a clear distinction between the elevator narrative shots and the performance shots. We added the effects "Echo" and "Bloom" which add more of a dream like appearance to the video. The "Echo" effect causes the video to split in to layers and then place a time gap between the layers causing multiple copies of one thing, one after the other. The "Bloom" effect adds a shine to light areas making them stand out against shadowed ares, drawing attention to it. We decided upon the use of these two effects because it is a convention that is often linked with fictional machines such as time machines like the famous Tardis in Doctor Who. 

Near the end of the video we added one final effect called "Earthquake" which violently jolts the screen about, depending on how high the mix is. We thought that because the video gets more upbeat it would work well with the tempo of the music, the more the video progressed at the end the more we increased the "Earthquake" effect, the mix of it increased by 10% each time so at the end it goes from 50% to 60% to 70% to 80% to 90%  to 100%. 

One key feature that has to be understood to get the most out of using effects on final cut is using keyframes, which allows for more diverse editing, this is because you are able to increase or decrease certain options of an effect over a duration allowing for more interesting finals results. Jamie and I both used key frames when adding effects to our music video, and I feel that without them the video wouldn't be as well defined as it, perhaps, is now.

Final Rough Cuts - 06/02/13

This is what me and Jamie have edited so far, there are no effects or transitions on the video at the moment and they will come after we have sorted out a couple of other issues. There are two main issues with what we have produced so far, the first being that the aspect ratio of a couple of our shots near the end aren't the correct size and will need to be changed. To do this all that has to be done is have a clip selected and then go to the "Motion" menu and select the distort sub menu, this will bring up a couple of options which allow you to edit how the video looks. What we have to do to change the ratio is move the aspect ratio slider to the size we want, which is -42. The second problem we have is that you are able to see under the border of some of the clips, to solve this problem we are going to have to delete the tracks that are positioned beneath the top ones in the timeline as Final cut plays all layers that aren't hidden. When doing this we need to make sure that no clips that we are actually using will be deleted, if the are positioned on a lower tier of the timeline.

Editing the speed for a clip 05/02/13

This video is of me and Jamie explaining a situation that we had about the speed of one of clips in the bass narrative, we decided that it needed speeding up so we had to adjust and choose the speed most suitable for the situation.

Peer review - 23/01/13

Today in lesson Teni and Kayleigh reviewed what Jamie and I have edited so far in the music video. What they had to say was that we needed to add an effect or two to the narrative or elevator sequences to make a clear distinction between the narrative and performance shots. They also suggested that we should perhaps work at a faster pace as that will allow us to tweak the small fiddly aspects of the music video with more ease as we won't be pressured as much by the looming deadline.